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30 Hous. L. Rev. 1205 (1993-1994)
A Contract Tale from the Crypt

handle is hein.journals/hulr30 and id is 1227 raw text is: VOLUME 30     FALL 1993      NUMBER 3
HOUSTON LAW REVIEW
ARTICLE
A CONTRACT TALE FROM THE CRYPT
Curtis Nyquist
Table of Contents

I.    INTRODUCTION  .......................
II.   THE  TALE  ..........................
III.  GRAY V. GARDNER AND THE CLASSICAL
THEORY OF CONTRACT  .................
IV.   PRECEDENT OR SUBSEQUENT TO WHAT. ......

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Professor of Law, New England School of Law. B.A., North Park College,
1969; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1974. The author wishes to thank George Dargo,
Margaret Dempsey, Stuart Frank, Andrew German, Jacqueline Haring, the late Sam-
uel Lowe, Jr., Paul Madden, Gary Monserud, and Judge Hiller Zobel for their as-
sistance; Mystic Seaport for permission to use portions of an article published in The
Log of Mystic Seaport; the University of Warwick Law School, Coventry, England for
providing a sabbatical home; and the New England School of Law for the sabbatical
year. The title was suggested by Michael McChrystal.

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